The Visit

Well Alan, like most your writes, this one requires rereading to wring out the full meaning, of which there is a large quantity. That makes it interesting.

I understand Pandora's box, but it held evil, and I don't believe you intended that implication. It's modern meaning is equivalent to "a can of worms". Perhaps a ‘treasure chest' would be more apropos?

I also wonder that you avoided the obvious "female-full-house" instead of "women-full". Perhaps the alliteration was a bit too obvious.

I do like the last stanza. In fact, this whole piece seems to get better and better as it proceeds.

Alcuin